Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's ways have often been misunderstood in this country, as her neutralism too often appeared basically pro-Russian. Many times the fault has lain with the United States, which sought to comprehend international politics in terms only of "for" and "against." But with the last week Nehru's India has behaved in a manner as inconsistent by her own standards as it is unfriendly by ours, and her U.N. voting record on Hungary is a disappointment most of all to those who had esteemed Nehru highly...
Bundy's own response to the problems he has met as Dean has been generally well received by his Faculty. "His is not an unrelated academic intelligence," a friend remarked. "He perceives and works with facts and makes them move." Some, of course, find fault with him for his hardness, particularly in his control over appointments, but others see a very warm and human man beneath the facade of detatchment required by his post, "a position that requires hard judgements in order to defend the University from mediocrity," according to one Housemaster...
...movie's fault, is that the people aren't really big; their motives often appear selfish or spiteful or stupid. The disparity between the characters' grand surroundings and their petty actions is, of course, one of the main points of the film, and it requires that these people be cut down from epic size by constant acid scrutiny. But it doesn't take three hours and any number of lavish sets to advance such a relatively simple argument--Stevens, as a matter of fact, clinches the point in one short scene which shows the group of ill-bred oil millionaires...
...needed sleep. She left cheerfully and he slept restlessly, and the lesson we all learned from this was that people aren't always what you first take them for. This is probably what Decision Before Dawn tries and fails to say, but the failure isn't Hildegarde's fault...
...this there is only one clear fault to be called.' but it is a crippling one. Director Wyler seems to have learned everything he knows about deep country from the double-truck color spreads in Better Homes and Gardens. The pastures are sometimes dyed a fluorescent green that would surely blind a cow. The fences organize the landscape as artfully as if it were a Fifth Avenue window. And that dear little Bucks County farmhouse with the walk-in fireplace and the lovely Shaker furniture is the one that every Sunday driver has been looking for all his life...